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Personality traits/arousal/attention/bias/Matthews: Thesis: (Matthews 2000(1), 2008a(2)) traits typically relate to a multiplicity of biases in information-processing, which cannot be reduced to any general attentional (or arousal) mechanism.

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Personality traits/Cognitive-adaptive theory/Matthews: the cognitive-adaptive theory of personality traits (Matthews 1999(3), 2000(4), 2008a(5); Matthews and Zeidner 2004(6)) proposes that traits have functional coherence, not structural coherence; that is, there is no single ‘master-process’ that mediates behavioural expressions of traits, including performance effects. Traits relate to multiple, structurally
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independent biases in a variety of neural, computational and self-regulative processes.
However, these processing biases are related in that they support common adaptive goals that are central to the trait concerned. Traits represent different modes of adaptation to the major challenges of human life. >Anxiety/cognitive-adaptive theory/Matthews, >Extraversion/cognitive-adaptive theory/Matthews.

Gerald Matthews, „ Personality and performance: cognitive processes and models“, in: Corr, Ph. J. & Matthews, G. (eds.) 2009. The Cambridge handbook of Personality Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals
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